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"Agility Prime, the U.S. Air Force’s small electric aircraft program, has adjusted its research focus toward hybrid-electric aircraft and autonomous flight in the belief that vehicles with these attributes will be most likely to make it across the figurative valley of death between research flights and acquisition of operational aircraft."

Hybrid-electric propulsion startup VerdeGo Aero has closed a Series A1 funding round, exceeding the target of $4 million required to accelerate development of its VH-3 piston-based and VH-4T turbine-based hybrid powerplants.

Nine small businesses received 2023 NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Ignite Phase II awards to further develop technologies that may be used in the agency’s missions and in the commercial space industry.

The VH-4T will feature a Pratt & Whitney PW200 series turbine engine.

VerdeGo Aero has been awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract under NASA’s SBIR Ignite program, where it will demonstrate how its VH‑3–185 hybrid-electric powerplant is applicable in electric aircraft.

Startup VerdeGo Aero has been awarded a U.S. Air Force contract to advance development of a turbine-based hybrid-electric powerplant. Testing of the first prototype is planned to begin in May.

VerdeGo Aero, headquartered in Daytona Beach, has secured its place among the select few aerospace companies recognized in TIME Magazine’s America’s Top GreenTech Companies of 2024!

“Hybrid-electric power has clear advantages, and it can be scaled quickly by leveraging the current jet fuel infrastructure and the [sustainable aviation fuel] infrastructure, which is growing far more rapidly than batteries are advancing,” Bartsch says.

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